Shadow of the Almighty: The Life & Testament of Jim Elliot
- ISBN-10
- 006062213X
- ISBN-13
- 9780060622138
- Series
- Shadow of the Almighty
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1958
- Publisher
- Harper
- Author
- Elisabeth Elliot
Description
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." So wrote Jim Elliot at age 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College. "Seven years later," writes his widow, "he and four other young men . . . sat together on a strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuador's rain forest, waiting for the arrival of a group of men whom they loved, but had never met - savage Stone Age killers, men known to all the world now as Aucas." The circumstances of the death of these men are by now known throughout the world in one of the great missionary adventure stories of modern times. But this is the first account of the whole life of one of them - a life that, though "hid with Christ in God," was in part revealed in some of the most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time. Using to the full these rich journals, his widow has selected the most powerful, revealing passages and woven around them the story of his life. Shadow of the Almighty is a tremendous biography of an adventurous life and is also exceptional devotional literature. Jim Elliot's life and testament may well be counted among those truly great Christian writings that will endure.
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Other editions
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- 2008
- 351 pages
- Paperback
- Hendrickson Publishers
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- 1979-08
- - pages
- Paperback
- Harper San Francisco
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